Lettuce...eat!

In light of the new food guide, here's another segment on how our tiny garden spot is contributing to the vegetable group.

Lettuce is a spring and fall crop, though I tried during the winter too, since it is usually mild here. That didn't work too well, but once it warmed up a bit, they did fairly well for having less than a square foot space to grow. The photo is the final harvest, and though it's not much, nutritionally or monetarily, it has added to the fun in our food. It's been 100 F enough, and they gave baked often enough, that it is time to pull out for a new summer vegetable, still TBD.

Things to remember:

• As always, avoid over watering!
• Plant every two weeks during the spring and fall, or when you have spring and fall like weather, in order to have a constant crop. This what I want to try next time.
• Harvesting the leaves increases production.
• The variety lettuce pack is nice because of the...variety!
• Once it gets too warm, the plant will send up a flower stalk. Clip it off to force the plant to produce a little longer, though it means that the leaves are going to get tougher.

(Does you know how to make the font color change? I highlight the word and tell it to change, so it does, but it doesn't publish that way. I could learn html, and edit that way, but why doesn't it just behave?)